(June 23, 2014 at 8:51 pm)Arthur123 Wrote: 2. A fetus is an innocent human being
Arbitrary and unsupported assertion.
Evidence counter to this assertion comes from online dictionaries and repositories as to what a 'human being' is.
Oxford Dictionaries
Quote:A man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance.Dictonary.com
Quote:any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.Where an individual is:
Quote:1. a single human being, as distinguished from a group.Which makes the above definition circular. However from the same source:
Quote:5. Biology .Even the first theistic reference that Google listed for me does not grant human being status to a single cell.
a. a single organism capable of independent existence.
Assemblies of God: Enrichment Journal
Quote:An embryo in the earliest stages of development is a living, multicellular organism with a genetic code unique from the genetic code of the mother and father of that embryo. An embryo that develops from the fertilization of a human egg and a human sperm is a human embryo. So, an embryo is a human life. With the right conditions for further development, a healthy human embryo will develop the secondary characteristics of self-awareness, rationality, and capacity for language that collectively distinguish human beings from other living organisms.The closest they come to granting human being status for the fertilized egg is:
Quote:Psalm 139:13–16 shows that God knows us even at the earliest stages of embryological development, before our organs have formed and our cells have differentiated.However, this would not grant special privilege as the whole point of the theist's imaginary friend being omniscient is that He allegedly knows everything and knowing you before you were born isn't stated as any sort of special case.
Your modus ponens fails on the second premise as no one, not even your friends, is willing to grant your extreme, unreasonably inclusive definition of what constitutes a human being.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?